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Old 02-14-11, 04:46 AM   #2
redneck
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I imagine that setting up such a biogas infrastructure wouldn't require much more of a capital investment than the construction of a conventional sewage treatment plant.
A biogas plant would be incredibly more expensive (in my opinion) than a conventional sewage treatment plant due to the sheer volume of the sewage we generate, that and the efluent would still have to be processed.

Solid waste (the part that produces gas) is a small percentage of the total that makeups sewage. Most of it is water. (grey water and storm run off from leaky pipes).

Ask for a tour of your local waste water treatment facility and you will see what it takes to process that volume.

I went years ago with my son's cub scout pack. It was very interesting.

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